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UNINA9910831024103321 |
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Autore |
Ward John <1947-> |
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Benefits management [[electronic resource] ] : how to increase the business value of your IT projects / / by John Ward and Elizabeth Daniels |
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Chichester [England], : ohn Wiley & Sons, 2012 |
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1-119-20824-6 |
1-118-38158-0 |
1-283-54279-X |
9786613855244 |
1-118-38159-9 |
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[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (364 p.) |
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658.4/038011 |
658.4038 |
658.4038011 |
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Information technology - Management |
Information storage and retrieval systems - Business |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Rev. ed. of: Benefits management : delivering value from IS & IT investments. c2006. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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BENEFITS MANAGEMENT; Contents; About the authors; Preface; Chapter 1: The challenges of IS/IT projects; Dissatisfaction with current approaches to benefits delivery; The need for a fresh approach: benefits management; Benefits delivery; A focus on value; A business case linked to organizational strategy; The importance of change management; Commitment from business managers; IS/IT sufficient to do the job; Involvement of stakeholders; Educated in the use of technology; Post-implementation benefits review; The importance of a common language; Summary |
Chapter 2: Understanding the strategic contextThe external and internal perspectives of business strategy: the competitive forces and resource-based views; Resources, competences and capabilities; Ends, ways and means; PEST analysis; Industry attractiveness and competitive forces analysis; External value chain analysis; Internal value chain |
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analysis; Alternative internal value chain configurations; Balancing the external and internal contexts: the dimensions of competence; Linking business, IS and IT strategies; Managing the portfolio of IS/IT investments |
Organizational information competencesSummary; Chapter 3: The foundations of benefits management; The gaps in existing methods and the implications; The origins of the benefits management approach and process; An overview of the benefits management process; Step 1: Identifying and structuring the benefits; Step 2: Planning benefits realization; Step 3: Executing the benefits plan; Step 4: Reviewing and evaluating the results; Step 5: Establishing the potential for further benefits; What is different about this approach?; Summary; Chapter 4: Establishing the why, what and how |
Why: identifying business and organizational driversEstablishing investment objectives; Linking the investment objectives to the drivers; What: the business benefits; How: the benefits dependency network; Measurement and ownership; Benefit and change templates; Worked example: improved control within a food processing organization; Summary; Chapter 5: Building the business case; Arguing the value of the project; Maintaining dependency: benefits are the result of changes; A structure for analysing and describing the benefits; Quantifying the benefits: the major challenge |
Ways of overcoming the quantification problemFinancial benefits; Cost reductions; Revenue increases; Project cost assessment; Investment appraisal techniques; Variations in benefits and changes across the investment portfolio; Risk assessment; Completing the business case; Summary business case for the FoodCo project; Summary; Chapter 6: Stakeholder and change management; Assessing the feasibility of achieving the benefit; Stakeholder analysis and management techniques; From analysis to action; Completing the benefits plan; Approaches to managing change |
Matching the management approach and stakeholder behaviours |
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The second edition of Benefits Management has been updated with current examples, further insights from experience and recent research. It shows how the enduring challenges achieving business value from information systems and technology projects can be addressed successfully. The approach, which is synthesized from best practices, sound theories and proven techniques from a range of management disciplines, is exemplified from the authors' extensive experience of working with a wide range of organizations. The book includes examples from a wide variety of projects including non-IT proje |
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UNINA9910955106903321 |
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Titolo |
Handbook of accelerator physics and engineering / / edited by Alexander Wu Chao ... [et al.] |
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Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2013 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (848 p.) |
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Particle accelerators |
Nuclear physics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Preface; Acknowledgments to Second Edition; Acknowledgments to First Edition; Table of Contents; 1 INTRODUCTION; 1.1 HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; 1.2 NOMENCLATURE; 1.3 FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS; References; 1.4 UNITS AND CONVERSIONS; 1.4.1 Units A.W. Chao; References; 1.4.2 Conversions M. Tigner; 1.5 FUNDAMENTAL FORMULAE A.W. Chao; 1.5.1 Special Functions; 1.5.2 Curvilinear Coordinate Systems; References; 1.5.3 Electromagnetism; 1.5.4 Kinematical Relations; References; 1.5.5 Vector Analysis; 1.5.6 Relativity; 1.6 GLOSSARY OF ACCELERATOR TYPES; 1.6.1 Antiproton Sources K. Gollwitzer, J. Marriner |
References1.6.2 Betatron M. Tigner; References; 1.6.3 Colliders D. Hartill; References; 1.6.4 Cyclotron H. Blosser, M. Craddock; References; 1.6.5 Electrostatic Accelerator J. Ferry; References; 1.6.6 FFAG Accelerator M.K. Craddock; References; 1.6.7 High Voltage Electrodynamic Accelerators M.R. Cleland; References; 1.6.8 Induction Linac R. Bangerter; References; 1.6.9 Industrial Accelerators R. Hellborg; References; 1.6.10 Laser, Wakefield and Plasma Accelerators J. Rosenzweig; References; 1.6.11 Linear Accelerators for Electrons G.A. Loew; References |
1.6.12 Linear Accelerators for Protons S. Henderson, A. AleksandrovReferences; 1.6.13 Livingston Chart D. Hartill; References; 1.6.14 Medical Applications of Accelerators J. Alonso; 1.6.14.1 |
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Radiation therapy; 1.6.14.2 Radioisotopes; References; 1.6.15 μ+μ- Collider R. Palmer; 1.6.15.1 Collider; 1.6.15.2 Muon storage ring neutrino factories; 1.6.15.3 Technical challenges; References; 1.6.16 Neutron Sources J. Wei, H. Lengeler; References; 1.6.17 Pulsed High Voltage Devices J.A. Nation, D.A. Hammer; References; 1.6.18 Radio Frequency Quadrupole J. Staples; References |
1.6.19 Rhodotron Y. Jongen, M. Abs1.6.20 Storage Rings W. Fischer; References; 1.6.21 Synchrotrons C. Zhang, S.X. Fang; References; 1.6.22 Two-Beam Accelerator J.P. Delahaye; References; 1.7 ACCELERATOR COMPUTER CODES R. Ryne; 2 BEAM DYNAMICS; 2.1 PHASE SPACE; 2.1.1 Linear Betatron Motion D.A. Edwards, M.J. Syphers; References; 2.1.2 Longitudinal Motion D.A. Edwards, M.J. Syphers; References; 2.1.3 Linear Coupled System D.A. Edwards, M.J. Syphers; References; 2.1.4 Orbital Eigen-Analysis for Electron Storage Ring J.A. Ellison, H. Mais, G. Ripken; References; 2.2 OPTICS AND LATTICES |
2.2.1 Single Element Optics K. BrownReferences; 2.2.2 3-D Multipole Expansion, Calculation of Transfer Maps from Field Data, Fringe Fields M. Venturini, A. Dragt; References; 2.2.3 Lattices for Collider Storage Rings E. Keil; References; 2.2.4 Lattices for Low-Emittance Light Sources C. Steier; 2.2.4.1 Lattice choices; 2.2.4.2 Chromaticity correction and nonlinear optimization; 2.2.4.3 Systematic lattice optimization techniques; 2.2.4.4 Evolution of light source lattices; 2.2.4.5 Ultimate storage rings; References |
2.2.5 Betatron Motion with Coupling of Two Degrees of Freedom V. Lebedev, A. Burov |
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Edited by internationally recognized authorities in the field, this expanded and updated new edition of the bestselling Handbook, containing more than 100 new articles, is aimed at the design and operation of modern particle accelerators. It is intended as a vade mecum for professional engineers and physicists engaged in these subjects. With a collection of more than 2000 equations, 300 illustrations and 500 graphs and tables, here one will find, in addition to the common formulae of previous compilations, hard-to-find, specialized formulae, recipes and material data pooled from the lifetime e |
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